skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's still a development. Bands that I know used to have poor 8-track analog machines like 10 years ago. Now they use a standard-issue laptop and some additional hardware that cost maybe a couple of hundred bucks to make decent-quality recordings that they burn on cds and sell or give away. Skill is still one factor, but the other limiting factor - capital has been shrinking more and more. So there's more good music out there in good quality and that diminishes the price. Now wether that's good or bad - I don't know.
Give me all of the top music software in the world and I won't be able to create anything worth listening to.

Perhaps this is a slight tangent, but are you sure about that? It seems daunting now, but that's probably because you're at the rock bottom of the learning curve. I'll bet there has been more than one brilliant musician who's looked at their sequencing software and thought "I could never write this". I don't mean to suggest that there's a Mozart inside everyone, but I don't see why we couldn't teach musical literacy as "easily" as we teach programming. Music Engineering 101?

Maybe more to the parent's point, it's also possible that it doesn't require a Mozart to make a popular song today. PSY's Gangnam Style is clever and fun but if you turn off the video and don't understand the lyrics, the music is basically sampled from 90s trance hits. You could make a similar argument for Lady Gaga. The major creativity seems to be something layered on top of the music. How notable would OK Go be without the brilliant videos? Yes yes, I love their music too - but there's a lot of great indie rock out there.

Maybe there is a supply/demand curve for music. It's an interesting perspective that I have never heard before. Also consider: Old music doesn't "expire", so as new music is created, it increases the total supply. New bands are not only competing with each other, they're competing with every band that has ever released music.
Nice work. It's a richly geometric area.

Other things that might be nice to include are dot products (projecting one vector onto another as a measure of co-linearity) and rotation matrices (you could keep it to 3x3).
Ballmer to shareholders: 'a fundamental shift [is] underway in our business'
Congrats! That looks like quite an accomplishment.

Edit- On a side note, I'm actually friends with one of the founders of Omniture. He's also an investor in my startup. I'll have to find an easy way to break the news to him. :p
Probably an oversight. I usually surf on 30+ mbps connections, so if I were testing a site I wouldn't notice it.
You have to go through a couple of crisis situations together before you really know if you love the people you work with.
What happen ed in march to cause that wicked inflection point?
This is awesome. I've been wanted to host my own code (right now I'm con CodebaseHQ [1], great service) for security purposes but I didn't want to go with a plain git+gitosis.

I have it up and running now on my nginx (it was already serving all my projects), it took about 30m to do everything on Ubuntu following their how to and looking up their issues queue for a couple quirks I found.
Pretty much this. I keep tabs as temporary bookmarks, usually related to projects I am busy with at the time. I have regular cleanups where I bookmark any tabs that are long term keepers and delete the rest.
Shame on the author for not saying something to the younger workers. Yes, it is exploitation. How could it not be?
SpaceX rocket glitch puts satellite in wrong orbit
iI felt the sameway . I just used various apis for unscatter.com you may want to see about getting access to the blekko api if you keep playing with it. iI use some of the slash tags they offer for some search views, it's real easy to work with.
I downloaded their detailed income statements[0]. The Google Finance income statement appears to be wrong. Google's income statements imply royalties of less than 8.5%.

In their latest quarter (Q2 FY2013) "Cost of Revenue" made up $68,036,000 on revenue of $101,267,000. Of that, "Content acquisition costs" were $60,522. That means royalties make up a whopping 60% of all revenue. They're not making a profit and have lost money in FY2012 and FY2011.

0. http://investor.pandora.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=227956&p=iro... (see Historical Financials).
Even though you asked everybody to submit answers, you should expect people who expect themselves to do poorly to opt out. So your sample, I suspect, is strongly biased toward the answers from people who expected not to do poorly. And that bias is indeed likely to paint a rosy picture of the reality.
The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button doesn't actually work anymore. :(
I use Pandora and love the product. But every time I see this commercial with Tim Westergren where he states that the royalty system for internet radio is "deeply unfair" I can't help but wonder why he believes that to be true.

Where is it written that all distributors should pay the same price for their wares? Wal-Mart pays Proctor and Gamble a significantly lower cost than small grocers. Why? Because Wal-Mart, quite frankly, has P&G by the balls. Yet Wal-Mart is the source of more revenue for P&G than any other distributor, so they earn the right.

Now I realize that Pandora is the exact opposite- the distributor has no leverage, but I believe the same principle applies. There is absolutely no reason that distributors should be treated equally. Competition varies widely across different distribution channels. If Pandora can't operate at a profit, I don't believe it is incumbent on the artists to make way for their sustainability.
Beanstalkd is not stable it has a lot issues even in it current version. If you doing to be sending couple million messages per day beanstalkd is not for you.
you made a search engine client, it's very different. A search engine is an index atop a corpus of content that you crawl.

It might be useful for you to look at jQuery Masony library for your presentation.
Do moderators actually go through all flagged items? If so, that would probably explain why I can't flag anymore. I assumed flagging was automated, so I basically used it as down-vote for articles.

I emailed info@yc about my lack of flagging ability a couple months back. They said nothing was wrong with my account. Now I feel bad that I wasted someone's time. :(
I think that this framework isn't applicable to most because people who sincerely enjoy working are anomalous and in the minority. Even people who "love" their jobs do so not because the job is "lovable" in and of itself but because it is the lesser of all evils and affords them more freedom/time/benefits/money/other happiness-promoting factor, not because the actual labor is enjoyable in and of itself.

If most people were given a chance, they wouldn't elect to work. For most people, work is an obligation that they except reluctantly. Given this, "work-life balance" then becomes a unidirectional effort to drive down the amount of work and the number of hours down to zero, not to achieve any kind of real equilibrium.

Additionally, because hours worked is the most common and widely used method used to determine the amount of work one has done, any attempt to reduce that amount of work is most likely going to be done by reducing hours works. Hours are the quintessential "work measurement": if you want more "balance," you're going to try to work less hours.

I'm sorry, but most people don't like working, and they expend effort attempting to work less. Because of the widely accepted idea that hours worked equates to amount worked, the way that they do so is by trying to reduce their hours.

In the words of Micael Scott, "I would rather live jobless, on a beach somewhere, off the money from a large inheritance, than have to work in any one of these crapholes."

That's the mentality that most people have, and that's why they want to work fewer hours.
Just keep in mind, that liberal on the old continent, basically means libertarian in the US (or perhaps Britain).
Please bring this to the UK before i kill myself!
No it is sent to Soundexchange, and is split 50/50 with artist and label. It is the performance royalty.

It is a different royalty than publishing royalty which is BMI/ASCAP and those monies are sent directly to the label and they decide how to dole it out.

FYI terrestrial radio pay's 0% of revenue for performance royalties, Satellite Radio pays about 8% of revenue and Pandora pays around 50%

This unfair system of royalty payments were set up by the RIAA mafia in the mid 90's to discourage Internet radio since it would be a direct competitor to the old guard.

That is why there is current legislation introduced 4 weeks ago to bring parity to the royalty system. Why should a song that is played on FM radio pay a different set of royalties than one played on Satellite or one streamed on the Internet?

I personally have received several checks from internet streaming, for some big hit songs I played on as a session musician, yet those same songs, which were played tens of millions of times on terrestrial radio, paid me NOTHING, because terrestrial radio does not pay performance royalties.
They have zero profit, so you could argue any single cost is taking away "all their profits". But I'm probably missing a more insightful point - maybe that the RIAA engineers the situation so that their margin is ~0.
Your photos, simplified (Episode IV)
Do you run into any query limits with aggressive scraping? A colleague wrote an android market scraper a year or two back and she was repeatedly stymied by limits on the number of queries she could make to the store before getting cut off.
Don't know about no 1 but Google's TOS explicitly forbids the rendering of Google tiles outside a Google application, you can only use them in conjunction with Google's own Maps API.
I don't really understand the distinction, either. But Europeans also (in the countries that I know about) pay less value added tax on books (and food) than on other goods.
I agree that several of today's top performers are rehash 90's trance and euro dance. It honestly makes me laugh. I remember making similar music on Fruity Loops with Sonic Foundry Acid Pro as a kid. I had a midi keyboard and crappy monitors.

Creating digital music does have a learning curve...I had a rudimentary knowledge of music. I took a year of piano lessons. I could imitate some of the music I liked. The hardest part was creating something unique. I could be proud of.

Sequencing will always be fun for me. I have amassed some cool toys over the years. It is nothing more than a hobby.

Soundcloud is like a musicians github.
Can someone explain whats the catch ?

Looks like I can host my $22 github account for free on bitbucket.
Why are you so creeped out that they sent you a piece of advertising by mail after you gave them your address? It'd hardly be surprising these days if you received spam after giving away your e-mail address.
Oh, how I wish this were so!

Even with fairly boring usage, the Github GUI periodically wedges my repository into a state which requires CLI interaction (and a trip to stackoverflow). It's even worse for newbies - I get desperate pleas for help from clients all the time. I have come to the conclusion that there is no way around teaching the command line first, then giving them the Github client after they achieve competence.
Ask HN: Do the app stores provide statistical data about who downloads your app?
Do the mobile app stores we are all familiar with (i.e. iTunes / Google Play / BB App World) provide information to an app developer about the demographics of individuals downloading their apps?

I have a client who would like to know if this information is available but I have no published apps to verify whether or not this information is provided.

Thank you!
I don't think this is really for programmers though is it? I thought this was more about content/documentation developers.
Blog post quotes from a Kevin at Microsoft, making him look like a naive cheerleader:

"On the other hand, choosing Microsoft to launch your career provides nothing but upside.

Don’t believe the hype. I admit I’m biased, but for tech jobs, Microsoft is your best bet."

But it omits Kevin's six reasons why it's nothing but upside, in between these two paras. Good practice would be to show via ellipsis that something was omitted. Better would be to give a more honest argument.
It used to be sensible, when having a profusion of publishers was the only way to guarantee the plurality of opinions. Nowadays however, with internet, this necessity disapeared. And just like un music and movies, people who benefit from the statu quo refuse to acknowledge that...
You can probably get something like chrome using "Hide Caption Titlebar Plus" (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/hide-caption-tit...) to hide the titlebar and put the windows button directly into the window. You can even use Stylish to customize those button (so they'll fit your theme).
Nice implementation. Though I wish they would address the issue with CCV validation. If you use the test card 4000000000000101 which will fail the CCV check, you still get back a valid token.

There doesn't appear to be any way to configure their API to reject a token request with an invalid CCV short of creating a customer record for each request.
Aspies are often noticeably clumsy when it comes to bodily movements. When they play sports, they use more analytical thinking than physical instinct. I often played badminton with my brother when I was young. Every time, I found myself analyzing the trajectory of the shuttlecock to decide where to put my racket. By the time I'm done, it's often too late to move my body into the right position. Ditto for pretty much every other sport I've tried. Beside social ineptitude, lack of skill in sports is a common reason why Aspies feel alienated in school.

But there is something called muscle memory, which allows even Aspies to do certain highly repetitive physical tasks without having to think too much. Typing and walking seem to fall into this category, though if there's nothing else to occupy my mind, it's not impossible for me to start being analytical about every step of a walk. I don't know where juggling fits in the spectrum, because I've never tried it, but the spectrum exists. Some types of bodily movements just seem to require some mysterious skill that can't be emulated with fast-but-single-threaded analytical reasoning.

Cooking is a piece of cake. You just apply a function to some ingredients, take the output, and feed it into the next function. Muscle memory takes care of stir(), and since it doesn't involve much thinking, I can afford to insert interrupts here and there to handle other events.
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The sysadmin cycle of life is to get hired then spend several years fixing, consolidating and automating until someone decides they don't need to keep paying a sysadmin "for nothing".
We don't do any aggressive scraping at the moment, so I can't really answer to that. The way our backend stuff works is that when we want to add an app to the site (http://gdgt.com/best/apps), we query for the search results, and then grab the app we're looking for.
The difference is that your example is in a free market and music royalty rates are controlled by Congress.
This is the kind of technology that's hard to distinguish from magic, even after they explain how it works. For instance, many science museums have an apparatus with parallel mirrors, where you stand in the middle and see your reflections vanish into the distance. Haroche's group built something similar, but clear enough for you to see images of yourself on the far side of the Earth. That's a small detail, too minor to make the press release.
George Church's new book about synthetic biology
"The x86 Assembly Language Reference Manual documents the syntax of the SolarisTM x86 assembly language. This manual is provided to help experienced programmers understand the assembly language output of Solaris compilers. This manual is neither an introductory book about assembly language programming nor a reference manual for the x86 architecture."
Walmart testing same day delivery service
I agree.

To put it bluntly, focusing on all people is not having a focus at all.
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What you're failing to realize is that the per-stream fee that Pandora pays is exclusive to net broadcasters. Everyone else pays a percentage of revenue that is a manageable 7-8% for performance fees, and another 5.5% for publishing. Pandora's highly risky, per-stream fee is a number pulled from the asses of the RIAA and has no basis in the reality of what the music might be worth in advertiser dollars.

Why is $0.002 a fair price to pay each time you play a song? Where did that number come from? Why would Pandora pay this, but Sirius not?

When the largest, most efficient net broadcaster, after 11 years and over $300M in projected 2012 revenue, cannot optimize their way out of a -14% margin, what mathematical justification is there for this $0.002 figure?

The number is supposed to be based on a "willing seller, willing buyer" calculation based on the market rate of what companies are willing to pay, and yet the only rates that were allowed into these discussions were the mandated rates by the copyright royalty board - not the rates that independent labels might offer, or the companies that had royalty-free agreements, like ours (www.earbits.com).

You will be hard pressed to find a person more pro-artist than me, but the per-stream rate of $0.002 makes zero sense, if a per-stream rate makes any sense at all. Asking for neutrality across platforms seems more than fair.

The real reason the labels don't want to budge with Pandora is simple. The royalties go to SoundExchange, and then get distributed directly to artists - most of them unrecouped by their record labels. Labels want to destroy anybody whose royalties don't go through their accounting department, where they can file them away under unrecouped and keep every penny the artists deserve. That is the real reason for this battle.
Yes exactly. I've noticed a lot of open-source Python projects use Mercurial on BB - there is still some community segmentation. I would think as people get tired of Google Code remaining static and backwards compared to BB that more Mercurial projects will move to BB from Google. The BB UI was pretty weak compared to Github before today. I'm glad to see this.

I use BB for the free private Git repos but had always planned to switch to paid Github once I actually need collaborators. Now I could see staying with BB when I need to go paid.
I started my career at Microsoft and don't regret it for a second, but I cannot imagine I'll ever go back. The reasons for going to Microsoft cited in the original article at http://microsoftjobsblog.com/blog/dear-jobsblog-why-should-i... are silly.

I could direct some snark at each bullet point, but they're sufficiently ridiculous that instead I'll give my reasons for not regretting my four years and two days of being a blue badge:

* Brand names are useful: when you're interviewing for your second job, no one will have ever heard of fribble.com (or whatever), but they'll know Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.

* I met a huge number of people in a very short amount of time. The connections I made at Microsoft are still paying off today in terms of friendship, jobs, and intros.

* Relocation benefits are awesome. I grew up and went to school in Minnesota, and when I was hired by Microsoft, they paid for all of my relocation expenses. The odds of finding a startup that can/will do this are probably low.

* You'll be able to appreciate just how green the grass on the other side really is. Seriously: the amount of bureaucracy and political infighting can be stultifying. Understanding what you don't want out of the rest of your career is just as important as knowing what you want, in my opinion.

* "Our career paths provide clear steps for success" is silly, but the odds are that you'll never have a manager in a small company who is invested in growing your skills. Having some structure for a couple years to get this was useful for me.

Edit: one more:

* "Microsoft is getting ready to launch some of the most exciting products you’ve seen yet" is also silly, since the odds of you working on one of the 'cool' projects is incredibly low, but there is a lot to be said for the fact that millions of people will use the software you help create. My work on Visual Studio impacted every single user every day, which is ridiculously cool and humbling.
Taking the idea of Facebook's social graph to the enterprise
We Interviewed the Most Hated Man on the Internet
Are they charging you for requests (over the initial allotment of 5,000 requests per month), if this is done via Bing Web Search API in the Azure Marketplace?
Actually, that's not very accurate. Those performance royalties are paid to SoundExchange, a non-profit assigned to distribute the royalties to the artists. The whole reason the labels hate Pandora is because it's the only massive service paying hundreds of millions of dollars directly to the performers, without filtering it through the labels' accounting departments.
A few weeks back Google Finance was reporting GOOG's own earnings incorrectly. Most people with interest in such things recommend avoiding it like the plague
Thanks!

If you look back you can see we've been growing at a pretty steady clip every since we launched: http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Optimizely

However you are right that there does seem to be an inflection point in May 2012. I can only speculate why this happened. Here are a few possible reasons:

1. We got really lucky with a bunch of great press at the end of April including a phenomenal piece in Wired: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_abtesting/ and a piece on CNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEpsfQHNUxU

2. We announced our funding: http://blog.optimizely.com/2012/05/30/optimizely-surpasses-g...

3. Probably in some part because of #1 we started ranking very high for organic search terms. For example we are now the first ranked result for "website a/b testing" on Google.

Hope that answers your question!
The only reason Apple has such a big share in tablets is cause they were the ones that got one out there that didn't suck first.

Same with Microsoft. Windows 95 kicked all others asses cause they MADE the PC business. Just like Apple did with tablets and iphones. iphones have since gotten saturated with other products, tablets soon to follow. Just like the computer business in the 90s.
His "reasons" are more naive cheerleading. Frankly, I thought Kevin's post was so vapid that a response was unnecessary.
lol, meta
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His description of the determinant, too. I hadn't heard that explanation until a second semester of real analysis, when learning the proof of the Inverse Function Theorem (an amazing thing to study, by the way, connects many the dots between linear algebra and calculus).

Even then, it was a question I had to ask my brilliant, constantly-pissed looking young professor. "Hey, uh, the Jacobian... what does the determinant mean, uh, geometrically?". He looked at me like a slug, before explaining it was the measure of the newly mapped unit square. Fireworks went off in my head. Two linear algebra classes before only ever explained it by its algorithm or its usefulness (e.g., ∃ A^(-1) for A \in R^{n,n} iff det(A) != 0)

Side note: that professor had the most effective teaching style for pure math I've ever seen. Besides lectures that expanded on the contents of Rudin and interesting problem sets, he gave us a list of a hundred theorems, propositions, and exercises. Told us the final exam would be six problems, four of which would come from that list, another of which would be a clever new one, the last something truly hard.

Never learned analysis better than when sitting down and working through (not memorizing) each of those proofs and theorems for possible later recapitulation.
Can you repro that?